Morning Must Reads: August 25

Beyoncé delivered a mind-bogglingly perfect medley of tracks from her self-titled album, dancing around the stage at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, as Jay Z and Blue Ivy watched from the sidelines. She was clearly having more fun than anyone else in the room

The acclaimed actor and Academy Award–winning director of 1982’s Gandhi, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, died at age 90; British Prime Minister David Cameron called him “one of the greats of cinema”

The largest earthquake to hit California’s Napa Valley in 25 years struck near the Bay Area, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency; at least 87 people were injured early Sunday morning and power outages were reported

The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to prescribe later start times for teens, saying that delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. would help curb their lack of sleep, which has been linked to poor health, bad grades, car crashes and other problems

Male tennis players embarrass themselves more often than their female counterparts, according to a new study that analyzed data from line-call challenges; the authors chalk up these gender differences to overconfidence, pride and shame

A 24-year-old was arrested on Sunday after scaling the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, where he took the opportunity to snap some photos with his iPhone; the stunt comes about a month after two American flags on the iconic structure were replaced with white flags

While President Petro Poroshenko gave an emotional address to citizens and oversaw a military parade in Kiev, Ukrainian prisoners of war were marched by pro-Russian separatists through the streets in rebel-held parts of the east, to jeers and bottle throwing

The two deaths of Ebola in Congo are unrelated to the outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria that has killed more than 1,400 people; Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said Sunday: “This epidemic has nothing to do with the one in West Africa”

It’s been a rough weekend for Sony, with reports of hackers hitting its huge Playstation network and a bomb threat made against a flight carrying a top Sony executive in the U.S. Sony says none of the data of its 53 million Playstation users was compromised